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HANSARD Great British Energy BillI looked carefully at that issue before we made that decision. I have great respect for the hon. Gentleman, but we cannot justify spending public money on a scheme that will not…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillI am going to make a bit more progress. Thirdly, Great British Energy will work with industry to develop supply chains across the UK to boost energy independence and create good…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillThe hon. Member is absolutely right. This is a massive concern for all our constituents, and Great British Energy is a crucial tool to bring down prices for our constituents. The…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillI have caught the eye of an infrequent contributor to this House, so I will give way.05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillI will make a bit more progress. I had the chance to visit the Lawrence Weston turbine in Bristol, which Members may know about. It is England’s tallest onshore wind turbine, and…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillI will not give way to the right hon. Gentleman again. We have heard quite enough from him. Secondly—I know this is a concern of the Liberal Democrats and of other Members on both…05 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceMy hon. Friend, who has great expertise on these issues, makes an important point. We welcome the success of Ørsted in today’s allocation round for the Hornsea wind farms. It is…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceI agree 100%. The notion that our exposure to fossil fuels as a country gives us security is belied by what has happened over the last few years; as the Prime Minister often says,…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceI congratulate you on your new role, Madam Deputy Speaker. With permission, I would like to make a statement about the sixth contracts for difference allocation round. It is less…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceMy hon. Friend is a great champion of floating wind in the Celtic sea. He is right: we are proud of the 400 MW project in this round. We need to look—including in the auction…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceI very much welcome my hon. Friend’s embrace of solar as part of the energy mix. It is really important to say this: we need more rooftop solar. Lots of people in this House ask,…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I very much enjoyed my visit to Telford, where I spoke with local business. It is easy to think about these things in very macro terms, of how…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceThe hon. Lady, whom I welcome to her place, makes an important point. We often get questions about what to do in an intermittent system. We need different forms of both…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceI think that tonight, the hon. Gentleman will think that that was not a very smart point to make. Weeks after we came into office, the price cap went up. I have explained why the…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceI am glad that my hon. Friend has raised that point. We face planning decisions and questions at a policy level, if I can put it that way, right across the United Kingdom,…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceMy hon. Friend speaks with great experience—from both inside and outside this House—and I welcome her expertise on these issues. She is absolutely right that we have to face up to…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceI shall address this question at a more general level, for reasons the right hon. Gentleman might understand. I think we should be looking at all proposals that can maximise…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceAgain, my hon. Friend speaks with great expertise. Part of it is about is having a Government who are committed to a proper industrial strategy and have the levers to make that…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceI am interested by the hon. Gentleman’s intervention, because his manifesto is basically higher bills and to make people poorer. We do not need to look into the crystal ball; we…03 Sept 2024HANSARDContracts for DifferenceI welcome my hon. Friend’s question. We need to be honest about this: we face what we can only describe as a crisis with our grid situation, because we have people wanting to…03 Sept 2024